1. World Cup qualifying matches and longest-ever Wimbledon match, June 2010: 10.4 million

2. European Cup games, November 2010: 6.4 million

3. First day of the World Cup, June 2010: 6 million

4. U.S. midterm elections, November 2010: 5.7 million

5. U.S. vs. Algeria World Cup match, June 2010: 5.6 million

6. William and Kate's royal wedding, April 2011: 5.4 million

Source: Akamai Net Usage Index

Figures are expressed in page views per minute, at the peak of readership

The top event remains a World Cup soccer match and the longest Wimbledon tennis match, which happened at the same time in June 2010. More than 10.3 million people per minute clicked on news stories about those sporting events.

Will and Kate did beat out President Obama's election in November 2008, which got 4.3 million page views per minute, Akamai says.

Of course, fewer people in general went to the Internet for news two years ago than do now, which makes these kinds of comparisons a bit tricky, said Jeff Young, a spokesman for Akamai.

The company Livestream, which provides live video services to the Associated Press, Entertainment Tonight, CBS and others, tells CNN partner site Mashable that it broke its all-time record for simultaneous live streams.

Akamai says it's difficult to compare live streaming events to each other, but that preliminary data suggests more people watched online video of the royal wedding simultaneously than any other event the company has provided live video services for.

The wedding slightly topped the World Cup in terms of live video. That sporting event saw a peak of 1.6 million people watch Akamai's streams concurrently.

"Each year we are seeing more people consume video online at events of this nature, but it's very hard obviously to do that apples to apples comparison," Young said. How widely an event is syndicated greatly affects how many people will end up seeing it on the Internet, he said.

The interest in the royal wedding online does show how the Internet is changing the way people look for and consume information, he said.

"This is an example of just how important the Internet and connected devices have become to how people experience something like this," he said. "It wasn't the fact that people were at the office in front of their computers -- and yet still a huge number of folks have gone online to experience this event.